Ricin Fast Facts
Here’s a look at ricin, a natural, highly toxic compound that is extracted from castor beans.
Facts
About one million tons of castor beans are processed every year, worldwide. Ricin is part of the waste from the beans when castor oil is made. Sometimes this is called “mash.”
Less than a pinpoint can kill a human if ingested, injected or inhaled. There is no known cure.
Ricin can be used in powder, pellet, mist or acid form.
If injected, ricin causes immediate death of the muscles and lymph nodes near the site of the injection. Failure of the major organs and death usually follow.
Ricin Fast Facts
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Here’s a look at ricin, a natural, highly toxic compound that is extracted from castor beans.
Facts
About one million tons of castor beans are processed every year, worldwide. Ricin is part of the waste from the beans when castor oil is made. Sometimes this is called “mash.”
Less than a pinpoint can kill a human if ingested, injected or inhaled. There is no known cure.
Ricin can be used in powder, pellet, mist or acid form.
If injected, ricin causes immediate death of the muscles and lymph nodes near the site of the injection. Failure of the major organs and death usually follow.
Bloombergâs Gun Control Push, His âNewsâ Site & The Chinese Communist Party
Published: May 26, 2021
A major tenant of the Chinese Communist Party is a strict regulation of firearm ownership. They do so under the guise of “protecting human rights” and “reducing gun crimes.” They even criticize the United States for not following their example.
But there’s a connection between CCP antigun propaganda and efforts in the United States and it doesn’t take “six degrees of separation” to see it. The line runs fairly neatly from the CCP, to failed Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire antigun crusader Michael Bloomberg and through to his gun control news arm,